What happened to Khitan race?

If you are an expert on Chinese history, you are probably familiar with Liao dynasty(辽 916-1125) which was found by the Kitan people, but where did they go after the Manchus took over?

you sure, because i thougt Jin dynasty which was found by the Manchus.

seeing how I don't know but one Manchu I know said they have since been assimalted [bad sp I know] into P.R.C though in ancient times I don't know

i thought PRC was established in 1949.

Most Khitans remained in the Jin dynasty, some went with Yelu dashi and fled westwards and estabilished the western Liao or Kara Khitai.

I was told , that the Khitan eventually evolved into the Manchus.

We Chinese used to call it Xi-liao or western liao however islamic histories called it kara-khitai and we chinese translated to hala-qidan.

Originally posted by Siege Tower good question, probably because they were converted to islam,  i just remembered that Chinese use refer Sunni muslim as the "black cloth". Rumor says that the ruler of Kara-Kitan secretly converted to muslim, there's got to a connection.

Originally posted by Decebal black certainly has something to do with direction, as in the steppe world, colors were associated with the cardinal points (as well as the center). Thus black � north, blue � east, red � south, white � west, yellow -center. Kara Khitai would therefore be the Northern Khitai.

Originally posted by MING-LOYALIST Most Khitans remained in the Jin dynasty, some went with Yelu dashi and fled westwards and estabilished the western Liao or Kara Khitai.   The Khitans in western liao were annhilated by Mongols and most likely merged with the central asian peoples and mongol peoples there.   The Khitan in Jin dynasty tryed to rebel against the Jin and sided with mongols, however most Khitans merged with Han people during Yuan dynasty.   it is said Daur(dawuer) people are the only modern day direct descendents of Khitans.

Edited by Killabee - 15-Feb-2007 at 18:24

The Karahanids were the confederation of Uighur and Karluk tribal groups. The royal family was from the uighur yaghma clan. and the kara hitais were emerged mostly into kereits, naimans and uighurs in this part of central asia and some of them surrended to monggol army and went along to iran and also assimilated by the Iranian people.

Hi Ming Loyalist

Kara is not only use in Turkic people. Kara means Black in Mongolia too. Kara or Khara is not only colour name. We Mongolians calling whole or solid thing as Khar for example: Khar Khuch - Solid Power, Khar Khumun - Husband (if translate it straight Blackman), Khar Gobi - Whole Sand Desert (without any herb). Also among Inner Mongolians a tribe called Kharchin because of they were paying tribute to Khan only Airag or Kumis (brewed horse milk) nothing else.

So I think Kara Kitan means Whole Kitan or Solid Kitan people.